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viewpoint
Priority Period is the university’s housing gamble — page 4.
performance
Dennis Hopper’s Colors paints an accurate picture of L.A. gangs — page 9.
sports
Volleyball sweeps Loyola and clinches a tie for the league title — page 28.
Volume CIV, Number 60 University of Southern California Thursday, April 14, 1988
By Lori Grange
Staff Writer
trojan
Feminism at USC
Women’s issues attract new focus, but change is slow
Senators strike deal to save ailing KSCR
By Gale Lance
Staff Writer
KSCR, the university's struggling radio station, was revived Wednesday night when it was used as a bargaining chip in a deal betweeen the Student Senate and the Office of Student Affairs.
The senate agreed to pay the student-operated station's annual budget — between $10,000 and $18,000 — on the condition that student affairs pick up the cost of a senate-published literary magazine, senate president Phil Clement said. According to Clement, the magazine's expenses could reach as high as $15,000.
"We've struck a deal with Dennis," Clement told the senate at its weekly meeting. James Dennis, vice president of student affairs, met with Clement before the meeting and agreed to the trade-off.
"He's going to pick up the magazine. We'll be taking the
student radio station under our grand umbrella," Clement explained as he withdrew a resolution that would have increased student programming fees by $1 to pay for both the ailing station and the magazine.
Fifty cents of an earlier $2 fee increase will be used to support KSCR's operational budget, Clement said..
"This is fantastic," said Mark Miller, KSCR's general manager, who was told of the move by Clement during a senate meeting recess. "It's great to see that when the administration lets us down, the senate comes through and helps us out."
Currently, the radio station is directed by Student Publications. Miller explained that placing the senate as an overseer will hold the station more accountable to its community. "The general manager will now be unable to abuse his power because he must report to the senate, and ultimately, the (Continued on page 3)
Bruce Zuckerman, assistant professor of religion, and colleagues are using modem technology to decipher the centuries-old and badly decayed Dead Sea Scrolls. Above, the “Genesis Apocryphon,” one of seven sheepskin rolls, is the only one that scientists have been unable to read.
Religion professor, colleagues resurrect the Dead Sea Scrolls
By Gale Lance
Staff Writer
Part of a 2,000-year-old riddle has been solved by religion professor Bruce Zuckerman and two colleagues.
In January, the three-man team traveled to Jerusalem to photograph the Dead Sea Scrolls — Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts of ancient religious texts, including parts of the Old Testament.
Discovered near Jerusalem by shepherds in 1947, the scrolls are rapidly decaying, large sections of text already reduced to dust. Zuckerman said that even the best curator could do little to save the documents from their ultimate extinction.
"We were on a rescue mission," he said.
Four of the seven scrolls were photograped, most notably the Genesis Apocryphon, which contains accounts from
the days of Abraham and Noah. Resembling strips of a charred bedsheet, the scroll has suffered the most weathering and remains the largest mystery of the scrolls.
"We know very little about this time and civilization — a civilization out of which Western civilization emerged," Zuckerman said. "Every shred of writing is significant."
Zuckerman and his brother Kenneth, a photographic expert, tried a new technique to uncover the scroll's elusive text, first photographed in 1956. James Charleswroth, a professor from the Princeton Theologian Seminary and one-time instructor to Zuckerman, aided thje scroll experiment.
In addition to conventional film, the biblical scholars used a rare, slow-developing infrared film to photograph the ancient sheepskin parchments. They lighted the scroll from behind and photographed the text at several levels of
(Continued on page 20)
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Shortly after Lambda Delta Lambda, the first recognized lesbian sorority in the nation, surfaced at UCLA, member Julie Leverence asked a student at this university about the chances of a similar group forming at USC.
"Are you kidding?" the student answered. "Not in a million years."
The response lends itself to a widely shared perception — that progress on this campus for women's issues, particularly controversial ones, has a long wait.
But if recent events mean anything, such progress may arrive earlier than expected. While a lesbian sorority might not arise in the near future, many say attitudes about women's issues are changing among students, faculty and others — including the Greek system.
"I didn't know what feminism was until I got to college, and then I started to realize the problems women face," said Leanne Smullen, a communications major and the co-founder of a new student feminist group. "I'm tired of nothing being done as far as human rights go. But I'm hopeful; I think we're on the verge of a new social change. I've got this feeling that something's going to blow soon."
'Waking up from a nightmare'
Nancy Silberman, a sociology graduate student and author of a study on graduate women, agreed.
'This is my fifth year (at USC) and it's the first time I've felt that there has been some movement toward women's cohesion. It feels like I'm waking up from a nightmare."
Such feelings seem to have some backing. A proposal to build a women's resource center on cam-
(Continued on page 20)
JAMES SU / DAILY TROJAN
ANTICIPATION — Quentin Fleming, a graduate student in business, gets a helping hand from Steve Fotey In his search for the right size of graduation cap. Seniors and graduate students began picking up their cape and gowns Tuesday outside the Student Union Building for Commencement on May 6.

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viewpoint
Priority Period is the university’s housing gamble — page 4.
performance
Dennis Hopper’s Colors paints an accurate picture of L.A. gangs — page 9.
sports
Volleyball sweeps Loyola and clinches a tie for the league title — page 28.
Volume CIV, Number 60 University of Southern California Thursday, April 14, 1988
By Lori Grange
Staff Writer
trojan
Feminism at USC
Women’s issues attract new focus, but change is slow
Senators strike deal to save ailing KSCR
By Gale Lance
Staff Writer
KSCR, the university's struggling radio station, was revived Wednesday night when it was used as a bargaining chip in a deal betweeen the Student Senate and the Office of Student Affairs.
The senate agreed to pay the student-operated station's annual budget — between $10,000 and $18,000 — on the condition that student affairs pick up the cost of a senate-published literary magazine, senate president Phil Clement said. According to Clement, the magazine's expenses could reach as high as $15,000.
"We've struck a deal with Dennis," Clement told the senate at its weekly meeting. James Dennis, vice president of student affairs, met with Clement before the meeting and agreed to the trade-off.
"He's going to pick up the magazine. We'll be taking the
student radio station under our grand umbrella," Clement explained as he withdrew a resolution that would have increased student programming fees by $1 to pay for both the ailing station and the magazine.
Fifty cents of an earlier $2 fee increase will be used to support KSCR's operational budget, Clement said..
"This is fantastic," said Mark Miller, KSCR's general manager, who was told of the move by Clement during a senate meeting recess. "It's great to see that when the administration lets us down, the senate comes through and helps us out."
Currently, the radio station is directed by Student Publications. Miller explained that placing the senate as an overseer will hold the station more accountable to its community. "The general manager will now be unable to abuse his power because he must report to the senate, and ultimately, the (Continued on page 3)
Bruce Zuckerman, assistant professor of religion, and colleagues are using modem technology to decipher the centuries-old and badly decayed Dead Sea Scrolls. Above, the “Genesis Apocryphon,” one of seven sheepskin rolls, is the only one that scientists have been unable to read.
Religion professor, colleagues resurrect the Dead Sea Scrolls
By Gale Lance
Staff Writer
Part of a 2,000-year-old riddle has been solved by religion professor Bruce Zuckerman and two colleagues.
In January, the three-man team traveled to Jerusalem to photograph the Dead Sea Scrolls — Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts of ancient religious texts, including parts of the Old Testament.
Discovered near Jerusalem by shepherds in 1947, the scrolls are rapidly decaying, large sections of text already reduced to dust. Zuckerman said that even the best curator could do little to save the documents from their ultimate extinction.
"We were on a rescue mission," he said.
Four of the seven scrolls were photograped, most notably the Genesis Apocryphon, which contains accounts from
the days of Abraham and Noah. Resembling strips of a charred bedsheet, the scroll has suffered the most weathering and remains the largest mystery of the scrolls.
"We know very little about this time and civilization — a civilization out of which Western civilization emerged," Zuckerman said. "Every shred of writing is significant."
Zuckerman and his brother Kenneth, a photographic expert, tried a new technique to uncover the scroll's elusive text, first photographed in 1956. James Charleswroth, a professor from the Princeton Theologian Seminary and one-time instructor to Zuckerman, aided thje scroll experiment.
In addition to conventional film, the biblical scholars used a rare, slow-developing infrared film to photograph the ancient sheepskin parchments. They lighted the scroll from behind and photographed the text at several levels of
(Continued on page 20)
(MM
Shortly after Lambda Delta Lambda, the first recognized lesbian sorority in the nation, surfaced at UCLA, member Julie Leverence asked a student at this university about the chances of a similar group forming at USC.
"Are you kidding?" the student answered. "Not in a million years."
The response lends itself to a widely shared perception — that progress on this campus for women's issues, particularly controversial ones, has a long wait.
But if recent events mean anything, such progress may arrive earlier than expected. While a lesbian sorority might not arise in the near future, many say attitudes about women's issues are changing among students, faculty and others — including the Greek system.
"I didn't know what feminism was until I got to college, and then I started to realize the problems women face," said Leanne Smullen, a communications major and the co-founder of a new student feminist group. "I'm tired of nothing being done as far as human rights go. But I'm hopeful; I think we're on the verge of a new social change. I've got this feeling that something's going to blow soon."
'Waking up from a nightmare'
Nancy Silberman, a sociology graduate student and author of a study on graduate women, agreed.
'This is my fifth year (at USC) and it's the first time I've felt that there has been some movement toward women's cohesion. It feels like I'm waking up from a nightmare."
Such feelings seem to have some backing. A proposal to build a women's resource center on cam-
(Continued on page 20)
JAMES SU / DAILY TROJAN
ANTICIPATION — Quentin Fleming, a graduate student in business, gets a helping hand from Steve Fotey In his search for the right size of graduation cap. Seniors and graduate students began picking up their cape and gowns Tuesday outside the Student Union Building for Commencement on May 6.